{"id":30218,"date":"2025-08-29T06:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/30218\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T06:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:19:12","slug":"tokyo-inflation-slows-on-subsidies-as-boj-stays-on-hike-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/30218\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo inflation slows on subsidies as BOJ stays on hike path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation in Tokyo sharply eased in August on government utility subsidies, while still staying well above the Bank of Japan\u2019s target, keeping it on a path toward further interest rate hikes.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer prices excluding fresh food rose 2.5% in the capital this month compared with a year earlier, versus a 2.9% clip last month, the internal affairs ministry said on Friday. The slowest pace of gains since March matched economists\u2019 forecast.<\/p>\n<p>A deeper price indicator that also strips out energy prices climbed 3%, dipping from 3.1% and matching forecasts, suggesting that beyond the impact of government subsidies, inflation remained relatively unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inflation in Tokyo sharply eased in August on government utility subsidies, while still staying well above the Bank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[14428,79,15469,179,18,518,19,185,23992,17,10603,8639],"class_list":{"0":"post-30218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-boj","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economic-indicators","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-food","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-inflation","16":"tag-internal-affairs-ministry","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-japanese-economy","19":"tag-tokyo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}